There're a lot of sticks in Los Angeles but eventually every English speaking listener over 30 spends some quarter hours with Bill Handel on KFI.

Driving home this morning Handel teased a fluff on the SpaceX fin test and I got in the door just in time to switch on the recorder... nice piece. Elon's team has the von Braun public face momentum well rolling.

My son had the day off from school so we killed the day at Disney. Just as the SpaceX Dragon was successfully splashing down we were starting down the internal "space station" stairs in Space Mountain. I was streaming the news and got about 20 messages all at once.

I squatted down and looked the six year old in the eye and said "When I was your age I was sure that when I grew up places like this - in Space - would be real. You remember this moment, Zaner, because right now a few hundred miles from here that Elon Musk guy did what the big fat slow companies couldn't do in 40 years with billions and billions of dollars. When you are my age, your world will be different. Real Space for regular people is finally happening."

SpaceX sent out the word in July and normal folks took it seriously - HR5781 was postponed. Tonight I received a mail from The Space Frontier Foundation that the House bil is on deck for tomorrow. I sent this email to my congressman... will you please contact your representative? Trust me, it is painless and you don't have to go into the details you see here... just tell them NO on HR 5781.